another story
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- A radically different interpretation of a situation.
- 1872 June 22, “A Woman’s Vengence”, in Chambers's Journal, volume 49, number 443, page 397:
- Oh, I daresay! Mr Adair and Mr Allardyce, who know you, could tell quite another story, I suspect.
- 1870, Lady Augusta Noel, The Story of Wandering Willie, page 38:
- Farmer Foster's averted face — his wife's slow-dropping tears — Peggy's uplifted hands and pitiful, shocked look, told quite another story.
- 1964, Lok Sabha Debates - Volume 28, Issues 31-40, page 6783:
- Then I saw another story that it was prohibitively expensive for us. I saw another story that we were going to have a modification of the MIG 21 engine, and another story that that was found completely unsuitable
- A different situation entirely.
- 1999, Wayne G. MacDowell, Anthony Rocco Guarino, Bobbi Janson, Not Just Another Love Story, page 323:
- Of course, if the Redskins draft you to play for them, then that's another story.
- 2008, Padraig O'Morain, That's Men: The Best of "That's Men" Column from the Irish Times, page 115:
- All of which throws into question the whole nature of identity and how we define ourselves. But that's another story.
Translations
[edit]a different situation entirely
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